Google’s New AI Search Results Promotes Sites Pushing Malware, Scams

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Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. Earlier this month, Google began rolling out a new feature called Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) in its search results, which provides AI-generated quick summaries for search queries, including recommendations for other sites to visit related to the query. BleepingComputer found that the listed sites promoted by SGE tend to use the .online TLD, the same HTML templates, and the same sites to perform redirects. This similarity indicates that they are all part of the same SEO poisoning campaign that allowed them to be part of the Google index. When clicking on the site in the Google search results, visitors will go through a series of redirects until they reach a scam site.Borwser notifications are a common tactic scammers use to send visitors a barrage of unwanted ads directly to the operating system desktop, even when you're not on the website. Once we subscribed to some of the notifications, we began to receive spam with advertisements for tech support affiliate scams, fake giveaways, and other unwanted sites. In one instance, we received an alert for McAfee antivirus that led to a site claiming our system was infected with ten viruses, urging the visitor to "Scan now to remove viruses" or renew their license.

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